Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1887 — GOOD ADVICE. [ARTICLE]

GOOD ADVICE.

Senator John Sherman to the Philadelphia Toon? Men's Republican Club. ■,■ All Urged to Take Up the Work of the Old Leaders with Renewed Energy. [Philadelphia special,] The sixth annual banquet of the Young Republicans of Philadelphia was given at St. George’s Hall, in tuis city, aud was largely attended. The following letter from Senator John Sherman was read, and its sentiments received with applause: “Washington, April 8. “Edwin S. Stuart, Esq., President Young Kepublicans, Philadelphia: “My Dear Sir— While I am compelled to deny myself the pleasure of dining with the Young Republican Club of Philadelphia, on April 11, I take the occasion to express my high appreciation of the vAlue of their services to the cause of good government, in which we all are, or ought to be, enlisted. As one of the seniors of the Republican party, I mav be allowed to give words of encouragement and advice to the young men who have assumed, or will soon assume, the control of our political organization. We certainly should feel pride in the great measures that have been successfully executed by the Republican party; and, although you may not have to conduct a gigantic war for the preservation of the Union, nnd will probably have no such difficult tasks as reconstruction to deal with, yet the work of the Republican party is but fairly begun. That which is past is honorable; that which is to come will depend chiefly upon the vigor, integrity and patriotism of the young Republicans, who, like yourselves, are cow organizing to continue the work of the past, “What yon have to do is still further to develop and diversify American industry. It should be our aim to produce everything for which the god of nature has given ns the raw materials or which are suited to our soil and climate. Every measure should be supported that will tend to foster, defend and protect home industries. Wo should not be content until every channel of communication capable of improvement, and which will yield benefits equal to their cost, shall be improved. The education of the rising generation, without respect to race, color or previous condition, ought to be a constant object of desire. The equal enjoyment of every civil and political right given by the Constitution should be secured by every legal and constitutional means. The shadows and prejudices of the past should be lifted by tho lights of modem civilization. The workingman in every condition and employment of life should be encouraged, protected, and assisted by every reasonable means to advance his condition, and to open up to himsolf by honesflabor and enterprise all the avenues of wealth and honor. Our adversaries may brood over the dead past, and mourn the decay of Confederate ideas, but Republicans hail with unbounded satisfaction every advance of our country in strength and power at home and abroad, conscious that this is consistent with the full powers of State, county, aud local governments reaching to every family and homestead in the land. “With the sincere hope that your society ana kindred societies throughout the United States may take up the work of the Republican party and carry it to its logical results, I am, as ever, very truly yours, “John Sherman.” SOUTHERN REPUBLICANS. Ex-Governor John S. Wise, of Virginia, was the guest of the evening. In responding to a toast he made a vigorous attack upon the Democratic party. In overhauling its record he said the Democratic party had failed to carry out its pledges to repeal the internal revenue laws; had defeated the Blair educational measure after pledging itself to its passage, and had won power by its assault on the surplus, yet had piled up a larger surplus than ever. It has passed a law of interstate commerce so bad that its own commission is forced to suspend its operation to avoid panic and business stampede. “The Republican party if it would win,” he'; said, “must cease staking its all on New York. Virginia is Republican; eleven counties, with 120,000 whites and but 15,000 blacks, give on an aggregate vote of 30,000 a Republican majority of over 2,000. Indiana no more has Hendricks and McDonald to lead; the one is dead, the other snubbed. West Virginia is Republican. Tennessee and North Carolina are ready to come. Let us devote one-tenth the energy and moans on them that has gone to New York in the past and the victory is ours.”